and i'm telling ya, it's running a close second to 'maids of misfortune' for the front runner in favorites.

but i guess as they are entirely different books, they can both occupy the numero uno spot for now.

i'm a big fannie flagg fan.

i bet you are familiar with her work, even if you haven't read a book.

she wrote 'fried green tomatoes'.

and as with everything else, the book is SO much better.

but this cover drew me in because i'm a fannie flagg fan.

promises of a quirky cast of characters suckered me from the get go.

and i wasn't disappointed. at all.

i don't want to give too much away.. but let me say this:

charlotte figg's husband, unexpectedly drops dead, and a stray dog named lucky claims her as his own. one day lucky brings home the neighbors mail, and as charlotte thumbs through it she happens upon a magazine with an advertisement for a double wide trailer for sale in a place called 'paradise'. she makes up her mind to purchase the trailer sight-unseen & that's where the story takes off.

charlotte finds herself in a world she never expected, living a life she never dreamed... and oddly it's exactly where she needed to be. she lands among a community of people who didn't know they needed her & somewhere in the midst of everyday life she overcomes a past she didn't really know was haunting her.

it's an amazing story. a funny, sometimes wacky story about a community of people with scars. some you see, and some you don't... and how they bond together.

totally worth the read, if you are asking me.

:)

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